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Using WP-SuperCache to optimize Wordpress on Cloud Sites

Article ID: 702

Last updated on October 15, 2014

Authored by: Thomas Hester

WP Super Cache is an available plugin for Wordpress installations to store cached versions of your dynamic PHP pages. Installing WP Super Cache can also reduce the number of compute cycles used by a site since it reduces the load on the cluster as well.

Preload settings

Set the refresh rate for preloaded supercache files by changing the number of minutes in the Refresh preloaded cache files every ___ minutes field (0 to disable, minimum 30 minutes) to a number appropriate for the traffic your site receives, like 1440 (24 hours) or 10080 (1 week).

Click Update Settings, then after the page refreshes click Preload Cache Now and in around 10 or 15 seconds the cache will start building for the site. Depending on the size of the site and amount of content, the cache will take a few seconds to a minute to build. Once complete you will see a much improved response and load time.

Any time a layout change has been made (such as adding a widget or changing the theme), it will be necessary to go to the admin panel and click Delete cache, verify your page looks as you want, then go into into the Supercache settings, go to the Preload tab and click Preload Cache Now to regenerate the cache for the site.

Updating the Supercache plugin

For security purposes and optimizations, it is important to keep the plugin (and Wordpress itself) up-to-date. This can be done through the Wordpress Dashboard.